Baxter Morgan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Um, and still and as long as they maintain Imtala, hospitals are obligated to screen and stabilize those patients regardless of their ability to pay.
Um
But I think that's it it's not just the poor that are gonna suffer under these cuts.
OB three was really a tax cut bill and that's great.
Um, but it's it's an accounting game and the money doesn't necessarily have to come out of the budget today.
But when it does come out.
it's really hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
Um and I think you will see just a monumental change in the provision of services around the country.
Um that's just my vibe on it on a cow where you're
There's some s a couple of specific disputes that are ongoing in this space that I think Kat and I are both working on that have sort of evolved over the past, you know, few months.
And one of them deals with uh you know this issue of states had historically well, the those restrictions we talked about earlier about, you know, you have to be broad-based, uniform, and not constitute a hold harmless.
CMS's earlier efforts to kind of clamp down on the excessive use of funds in these programs.
really targeted that whole harmless aspect.
If it was from intergovernmental transfer programs, they looked at those, you know, through the lens of is this a provider related donation?
Is it creating a, you know, an increase in the spend because of violation of the the federal restrictions on on those aspects.
And then the provider tax side, you know, they looked at if there's anything where there's a redistribution program, you know, the CMS began to view that.
as a hold harmless arrangement.
And you know, the way the statute and the rules were written, it seems to imply that the the state should be the one driving the train on a hold harmless, which kind of makes sense to me that you know the state is the is the volume actor that would have an incentive to drive additional revenue through its mechanism so it could draw down those funds like I was talking about for other uses.
Um, and there were cases throughout the past 20 years of CMS disallowing payments related to these hold harmless mechanisms.
But some states eventually got to the point where they looked at um these programs as a necessary component of the healthcare system in each community that, you know, be it through an association or just through the providers themselves.
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